Tyra Banks Thinks Fat People are OK!

Tyra put on a 350-pound fat suit to prove a point. I guess she thinks fat people are helpless and we all need to be more tolerant.

“There's no excuse for rudeness. There's no excuse for ugliness. And there's no excuse for nastiness and that's what I experienced," Banks said.

The only problem with her “experiment,” is that it’s silly. What exactly did Tyra prove? Is she trying to say Americans discriminate against fat people? I can assure you, that is quite impossible, since two thirds of the country is overweight. Fat people are the majority, not the minority. Fat people are also to blame for their condition. Sure, five percent may have an affliction, but the vast majority just eat too much and never exercise. As usual, though, the media pretends that everybody’s a victim. If Tyra had a show that told the truth, and reported that Fat America costs this country hundreds of millions of dollars each year in unnecessary health care costs (i.e. high blood pressure, heart disease, medication, heart surgery, adult onset diabetes), she’d be criticized by virtually everyone. No other country on earth has as many fat people as the USA. We don’t need miracle cures, health clubs, or exercise shows and we don’t need more sympathy (that never helped anybody get any skinnier). We need discipline. We need desire. We need the truth.

More useless technology

As I said before, we seem to have an obsession in this country with technology we don't need. In addition to multi-colored, picture-taking, game-playing, MP3 blasting cell phones with terrible reception and amazing fragility, there also seems to be an insatiable need for laptops. Hell, I have one (well, my wife does). Do you know what we do with it? Click the blue E while watching TV. Yep, that's it. Occasionally we surf the web while watching TV. And it was worth every penny of it's 900 dollar price tag, I guess. At least that's what the dope at Best Buy told me while he was trying to convince me to buy the extended warranty (also a good value since you can only return the laptop to Best Buy if it breaks in the first 14 days. After that, you have to ship it to the manufacturer at your own expense). Sometimes, I need the laptop, though, like when my 2000 dollar plasma TV or 1200 dollar home theater go on the fritz. What am I supposed to do, have a conversation or read a book? Believe me, if I ever have to talk or read, it'll be to figure out how to ship one of my shoddy, unreliable technological wonders back to the factory for repair.

Color Printers: Ripoff of the Century

I recently bought an Epson color printer for a hundred bucks and I really got the shaft. I made the mistake of trying to actually USE my printer last night and realized why I hardly ever do that. First of all, digital pictures are great and the software to touch them up is also great. Printing those pictures, however, is a nightmare. The software that came with my camera stinks. It does nothing more than organize the pictures with proprietary indexing crap that I don’t need. It doesn’t allow cropping or redeye reduction, which I do need. The software that came with my Epson printer is even worse. It allows me to update the picture contrast, remove redeye, and crop, but I can’t save the changes and can only send the updated picture directly to the printer. Of course, I don’t ever want to send anything to the printer because it absolutely drinks ink and since it costs sixty dollars to replace the ink cartridges, it just doesn’t make sense. You may wonder why I said “anything” in that last sentence, but get this: Epson modified this printer so I can’t select ‘greyscale’ as a color option. That’s right, it’s all color, all the time so I have to replace six ten dollar ink cartridges instead of one ten dollar cartridge. At that cost, it’s much cheaper to just dump the pictures to a disk and stop by Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Rite-Aid, or any of a hundred other establishments, and have them printed for about twenty cents apiece. Combine that with the corporate policy of Epson, Canon, and Hewlet Packard that dictates that all models be so flimsy they break within one year of purchase, and you’re virtually assured of spending a hundred and fifty dollars a year on your printer whether you use it or not.

I’m tired of paying too much for clothes

How come dress pants all cost the same amount? I went into a store the other day and picked up a pair of 32/34’s and they were the same 40 bucks as the pair of 50/32 extra fat. I picked up the two pairs and compared them, and I’m either I’m getting half as much for my money, or fatso’s getting a hell of a deal.

And other thing, if you take up two seats on the airplane, you should have to buy two tickets.